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LinuxBIOS Project Usenix Paper

Posted by timothy on from the bochsen dept.

caseih writes "The LinuxBIOS project has published a paper on using the open source bios code from bochs to help boot unmodified OSes such as Windows 2000, which was presented at the recent Usenix Conference. This was mentioned previously on Slashdot, but this paper gives more technical details on how they did it, some details about future possibilities, and their guiding philosophies behind this project."

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  1. Now the market has to pressure harware makers... by smittyoneeach · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...to provide this BIOS on new systems.
    Or is there some Mysterious Subterfuge preventing this?

    --
    Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
  2. Re:Now the market has to pressure harware makers.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Doesn't sound like it boots DOS. If you want a "PC", it's gotta boot DOS.

    (And I'm not joking -- every new P4 that shows up at work boots first into DOS to pull down the Ghost image.)